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🗓️ 6 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Today’s guest was named by TIME MAGAZINE as one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People and he’s been interviewed 20 times on NBC’s TODAY show and he’s here to talk about his new book, The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS.
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0:00.0 | We spend on average 1 minute per e-mail. Now on average we receive around 350 |
0:08.0 | bills a day. Now you can do the buff. That adds up to more than 4 hours. And that means we- |
0:13.0 | No, no, no, no, no. You're telling me the average person is wasted 400 minutes a day on e-mail? |
0:19.0 | Yeah. |
0:21.0 | Some shows don't need a celebrity to write her to introduce the show. |
0:25.0 | But this show dies. Two men. Eight kids co-created by two different women. |
0:32.0 | 13 multi-million dollar businesses. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrine time shop. |
0:56.0 | Yes, yes, yes, and yes, right nation on today's show. It is a very special occasion. |
1:02.0 | As we interview a man that time magazine has named as one of the world's 100 most influential people, |
1:09.0 | Martin Lentstrom. Welcome back onto the thrine time show. How are you? |
1:13.0 | Thank you. I am fantastic. Despite everything. |
1:16.0 | I tell you what, I can feel your super energy coming through the magical microphone and end to my, |
1:22.0 | my headphones here. I know the listeners can feel it too. Please explain to me how you found yourself as one of |
1:29.0 | time magazines, most 100 influential humans. |
1:34.0 | Well, listen, I'll tell you this is so funny. So I got this e-mail from an unknown account and it says, |
1:43.0 | Martin, you've been awarded a time 100 person, just one problem. It happened on the 1st of April. |
1:49.0 | So I wrote back to this guy. That is the most horrible joke ever. You can do on me, right? |
1:56.0 | The guy said, well, it's true. I said, no, I don't believe you. So I went back and forth with this guy for two weeks, |
2:02.0 | not realizing it was the editor of time magazine. |
2:06.0 | Oh, no. So after two weeks, I realized it probably is true. |
2:11.0 | So yeah, it was more or less a coincidence. I received this e-mail I felt at least, |
2:15.0 | but of course that done a lot of due diligence, I think, in the background. I had to say one thing to be honest with you. |
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